importing CAD file formats into Confluence Cloud pages

[Steve Hastings]

Hi there,

Has anyone come across a method of importing CAD (drafting) files into Confluence (Cloud) pages? The file format is normally .DWG or .DXF . I can drag and drop them into a page at present of course but can't view them...as one can do with PDFs, Word, Excel etc.

Thank you for any ideas! Kind Rgds, Steve

[Suren Raj · Accepted solution]

Hi, Steve.

Currently, confluence does not support DWG  an DXF image file format. We do have a feature request opened on our end to Support DWG and DXF file format in Confluence which you can access here:

• https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFCLOUD-27861

I did some testing by converting DWG/DXF file format to pdf and upload it to the page, we able to view the file.

Kind Regard
Suren Raj

[Magnus Rode]

Do we really need to upload dwg to Confluence? Maybe some other storing locations may be appropriate also but Confluence should be able to preview the files. Also for annotations (which would be cool in Confluence) there are some web based solutions out there. Only the integration is missing.

As an idea: we created a social CAD block library based on Confluence. If you click on the preview image of the dwg (or maybe other supported file formats in the future) you can insert the CAD block in your active AutoCAD. If you would like to use this solution please contact me. Maybe we could create an official Confluence add-in from this.

M.rode@calanbau.de 

@MagnusRode

[Steve Hastings]

Hi Magnus, thank you very much for your thoughts on this! Good stuff. I'll discuss with the team the add-in idea you raised. Best Rgds, Steve

[Move Work Forward]

Hi,

You're right that Confluence doesn't natively render DWG or DXF files - you can attach them, but there's no built-in preview.

We built CAD 2D and 3D Model Viewer for Confluence to solve exactly this. It lets you view DWG, DXF, and 70+ other CAD formats directly inside Confluence pages - interactive viewing with zoom, pan, and measurement tools.

DWG/DXF support is actually one of our strongest differentiators since most other Confluence 3D viewers focus only on mesh formats (STL, OBJ) and don't handle 2D CAD drafting files at all.

Cheers,
Leo